Quotes About Innovation

Tooey" Spaatz was an aviation pioneer who had shot down three German planes in World War I and helped set a world record for staying aloft in 1929 through innovative midair refueling

Also shipped to the Norman coast were ten miles of floating piers and pierheads, with telescoping legs to rise and subside with the tide. In all, two million tons of construction materials went into the Mulberries, including seventeen times more concrete than had been poured for Yankee Stadium in the 1920s.

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Culturally one of the most difficult things that happens is to get creative people to understand [that] the world is no longer just defined by television. The thing that happened, and has been happening for some time here, is that our work was much more diverse than even we knew it was. And I think as we began to change, the way we tackled problems and the way that we looked at problems was completely and utterly holistic in a way that I'd probably not ever really experienced before.

People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

I read recently that Americans are buying used cars for an average of $12,000, and I thought, Why don't they take the bus to work and make a feature film instead?

This is how it should be done' but rather 'This is how we are currently doing it today, it's up to you to show us how it's done tomorrow'.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

Let's not automatically turn to the next page in the textbook because it's the next page of the textbook, but because that page best serves the students we are teaching. And if the next page isn't as good as the one 57 pages later, let's go to the one 57 pages away without guilt.

I've always had an active imagination.

You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening - everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, "I did that.

It's better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. Ricky Gervais

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

Some Neanderthal had the magical idea of blowing through a reed ... to entertain the children one night in a cave somewhere. Then, in a blink of an eye ... civilization.

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John?

I love the modern technology now.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.